Organize files dialog: Dangerous, it *really* kills your kittens!

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi all,

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 14:09, Ian Monroe <ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Alejandro
> Wainzinger<aikawarazuni at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As I understood it, CollectionLocation will check if the Collection is
> > writable before allowing copy, move to, or remove from a collection.
> > That said, if it is writable I don't see why it's too dangerous to
> > appear.  I surely don't mind and actually like having tracks deleted
> > from iPod if I'm just moving them to my laptop.
>
> Well that logic is completely broken. Its easy to imagine how a
> collection could be writable, but some files end up not being written.
> Filename character encoding problems, hard disk is full etc.
>
> Its horribly dangerous, and its not theoretical of course, users have
> lost music.

OK, we are talking a lot here, but nobody actually disables this
horribly dangerous thing for now, this should be done ASAP, and a
patch should be issued to 2.1.1 ASAP also, else I count the days till
somebody else looses his/her music! I haven't seen anything happen in
this direction so far...


Regards, Myriam
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